Search Results for: food

BY MICHAEL FOX
DIPLOMATS at the United Nations’ headquarters in New York say that the troubled Iraq Oil for Food Programme is in danger of running into serious problems once again unless alleged ambiguities and contradictions in the current system are sorted out.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE UNITED States Food and Drug Administration has told three online pharmacies – Ashland Drugs, Mississippi, Bird’s Hill Pharmacy, Massachusetts, and the Compounding Pharmacy, Illinois – to stop selling nicotine impregnated lollipops via the Internet. The FDA said it acted because the nicotine sweets are dispensed without a doctor’s prescription, contain a non-approved form of nicotine called salicylate, and because the products could be accidentally used by children.…

BY MARK ROWE
THAI canneries are looking to invest in re-exporting north American wild salmon as a means of boosting revenue. Companies are planning to promote exports of wild salmon, which have been processed in Thailand in favour of farmed salmon, usually supplied from Norway, Chile and Scotland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PRESSURE is being applied to the European Union’s national governments to support both an increase in biofuel combustion and biomass energy production. A European Parliament’s industry committee report has called for EU Member States to ensure bio-combustibles, such as sunflower and colza fuels, supply two per cent of the fuel market by 2006 and 5.75 per cent by 2010.…

BTY MARK ROWE
THERE is a clear moral argument that individuals and companies should nurture the Earth’s precious resources. But such a stance also makes profound economic sense since it reduces a company’s waste and improves efficiency. This is particularly the case for a tobacco company where every stage of the production, distribution and consumption of tobacco products has environmental implications.…

Keith Nuthall
THE NORWEGIAN government has moved to liberalise its alcohol retail system, following the order from the European Free Trade Area Court that it should scrap its discriminatory beer retail system, where the sale of brands of between 2.5% and 4.75% abv outside the state alcohol monopoly Vinmonopolet is generally limited to domestically-produced lines.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FUTURE Harvest Centres, a network of global food and environmental research organisations, has launched a new online search tool in Rome allowing users to search the rich reserves of online material about harvest performance worldwide. *More information: http://infofinder.cgiar.org…

KEITH NUTHALL
WATER companies may be able to help the European Union and its Member States improve standards in the sector within developing countries, as part of an initiative to be launched by Brussels at the oncoming World Summit on Sustainable Development, in Johannesburg, this August and September.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ORGANISATION for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has unveiled a report illustrating that rich developed countries continue to subsidise their food producers, helping to lock developing country competitors out of their markets. Its paper Agricultural Policies in OECD Countries: Monitoring and Evaluation 2002 will state that last year, member countries’ public aid to food producers accounted for 31 per cent of farm receipts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FARMS growing both GM and traditional crops will find it extremely difficult to guarantee that non-GM varieties are not so contaminated with genetically modified material, they cannot be sold as standard food, a European Commission report has claimed.…